So incredibly rare for this franchise to have a non first rounder step in at such a young age and be an impact player.
Watching Hoglander reminds you of the Lightning with all it's insanely quick and tenacious smaller forwards who can drive the pace of play and control the tempo of the games.
The extremely fortunate part of the Podkolzin and Hoglander draft is both of them provide ingredients that our group of forwards needed more of.
And it may seem like i'm stating the obvious with ability to score and them being excellent players but i really feel like their styles provide 2 completely different but successful elements we sorely needed to add to Petey Boeser Horvat and Miller.
I'm obviously projecting with Pod a bit but i'm pretty confident he will be a huge piece for us going forward. Just may take him a bit longer than Hoglander to impose his impact.
Congrats to the scouting staff